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What is Creative Commons License?

Creative Commons licenses provide a standard way for content creators to grant someone else permission to use their work. A Creative Commons license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, or build upon a work that they have created.

What does it mean for bloggers, journalists and webmasters?

They can use hundreds of millions of photos free of charge.

There are more than 227,230,423 CC photos available!

According to Foter.com research

More than 90% of CC photos are not attributed!

More than 99% of CC photos are not attributed properly!

Let's change it!

Every CC license allows you to:

• COPY the work
• DISTRIBUTE the work
• DISPLAY IT publicly
• MAKE DIGITAL public performance (e.g. webcasting)
• SHIFT THE WORK into another format as a verbatim copy

Every CC license:

• APPLIES WORLDWIDE
• LASTS FOR THE DURATION of the work's copyright
• IS NON-REVOCABLE
• IS NOT EXCLUSIVE

These common features serve as the baseline.

Conditions

The details of each of these licenses depend on its version and comprise a selection of four conditions.

Attribution (BY)

You may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these.

Non-commercial (NC)

You may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only for noncommercial purposes.

No derivative works (ND)

You may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based on it.

Share alike (SA)

You may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs the original work.

Notice

A licence cannot feature both the Share Alike and No Derivative Works options. The Share Alike requirement applies only to derivative works.

Licenses

Most free to least free

Attribution (CC BY)

This license lets you distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the original work, even commercially, as long as you credit the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered.

Attribution-Sharealike (CC BY-SA)

This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon the original work even for commercial purposes, as long as you credit the original work and license your new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on the work should carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia.

Attribution-Noderivs (CC BY-ND)

This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the original work.

Attribution-Noncommercial (CC BY-NC)

This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon the original work non-commercially. Your new works must be non-commercial and acknowledge the original work, but you don't have to license your derivative works on the same terms.

Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike (CC BY-NC-SA)

This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon the original work non-commercially, as long as you credit the original work and license your new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

This license is the most restrictive of the six main licenses, only allowing you to download the original work and share it with others as long as you credit the original work. You can't change the original work in any way or use it commercially.

Creative commons licenses

Public Domain	Copy and Publish		Commercial Use	Modify and Adapt	Change License
CC BY	Copy and Publish	Attribution Required	Commercial Use	Modify and Adapt	Change License
CC BY-SA	Copy and Publish	Attribution Required	Commercial Use	Modify and Adapt
CC BY-ND	Copy and Publish	Attribution Required	Commercial Use		Change License
CC BY-NC	Copy and Publish	Attribution Required		Modify and Adapt	Change License
CC BY-NC-SA	Copy and Publish	Attribution Required		Modify and Adapt
CC BY-NC-ND	Copy and Publish	Attribution Required			Change License

Copy and Publish: You can redistribute (copy, publish, display, communicate, etc.)

Attribution Required: You have to attribute the original work

Commercial Use: You can use the work commercially

Modify and Adapt: You can modify and adapt the original work

Change License: You can choose license type for your adaptations of the work

Creative commons statistics

There are more than 227,230,423 CC photos available!

Most popular photo categories [%]

Travel	1.03
Wedding	0.84
Art	0.82
Music	0.80
Party	0.79
Nature	0.69
People	0.63
Beach	0.63
Family	0.62
City	0.57

Most popular CC photo licenses [%]

Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike (CC BY-NC-SA)	29.1
Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderivs (CC BY-NC-ND)	27.5
Attribution (CC BY)	15.1
Attribution-Noncommercial (CC BY-NC-ND)	13.5
Attribution-Sharealike (CC BY-NC-ND)	9.2
Attribution-Noderivs (CC BY-NC-ND)	5.3

Commercial use allowed: 30 % of creative commons photos

How do you want to use CC photo?

Do you want to use it commercially? (BY, BY-SA, BY-ND). You can’t use NC.

Do you want to modify it? (BY, BY-NC, BY-SA, BY-NC-SA). You can’t use ND.

Do you want to distribute derivative works under a license other than the original license? (BY, BY-NC, BY-ND, BY-NC-ND). You can’t use SA.

How to attribute creative commons licensed photos?

All current CC licenses require that you attribute the original author(s). There is not necessarily one correct way to provide attribution. The attribution must be given to the best of one's ability using the information available.

Attribute photos you should include:

1. The author

   • Name (or pseudonym/usemame) of the Author
   • Link to Author's profile

2. Title of the work

   • Title of the Work (if available)
   • Link where the original work is hosted

3. CC license type

   • Creative Commons License Name (long or short)
   • Link to the Full License

4. Copyright notices

   Does the work you want to use have a copyright notice?

   • You should leave those notices intact when you credit the work, or reproduce them in a way that is reasonable to the medium you use.

   Does the creator require you to include other parties in the attribution?

   • Include other parties as requested by the creator.

Attribution

Title (with link to original work)

By author (or username) (with link to author’s website, channel, photostream, or otherwise)

License (with link)

Lorem ipsum dolor by Agathe (CC BY-SA)

Where to place attribution info?

Under photo (preferred)

At the end of the post (good)

http://foter.com

http://creativecommons.org

http://freedomdefined.org

http://commons.wikimedia.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_available_under_a_Creative_Commons_License

http://wiki.creative/commons.org/Baseline_Rights

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FFAQ#How_do_l_properly_attribute_a_Creative_Commons_licensed_work.3F

[http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Users

http://creativecommons.org.au/content/iattributingccmaterials.pdf

http://creativecommons.org.au/learn-more/fact-sheets/attribution

http://www.wikihow.com/Attribute-a-Creative-Ccrnmons-Licensed-Work

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/61/Creativecommons-licensing-and-marking-your-content_eng.pdf

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/62/Creativecommons-informational-flyer_eng.pdf

http://mollykleinman.com/2008/08/15/cc-howto-1-how-to-attribute-a-creative-commons-licensed-work/

http://mollykleinmen.com/2008/08/21/cc-howto-2-how-to-use-a-work-with-a-noncommerical-license/

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/a/a4/Creativecommons-how-to-license-poster_eng.pdf

http://www.newmediarights.org/guide/how_to/creative_commons/ibest_practices_creative_commons_attributions

This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/